Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Gatty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 1: I was just reading yet another piece on what's actually
Speaker 1: in the DSA platform, the Democratic Socialists of America, and
Speaker 1: holy crap, hey, mainstream media, are you gonna make these
Speaker 1: people start answering questions whether or not they actually believe
Speaker 1: this stuff? These candidates, they call themselves Democratic Socialists.
Speaker 2: Why don't we start with that.
Speaker 3: Actually, there are a number of folks who've gone through
Speaker 3: their platform and it includes, and this is a brief summary,
Speaker 3: no more bills for anyone, okay, of any sort.
Speaker 1: Stop there, fucking no. Really, the rest of this is gravy.
Speaker 1: You're laughing, Yes, I'm laughing. Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: If you can stand up in front of a crowd
Speaker 1: and say no more bills and they think cool, then
Speaker 1: you're talking to children or dumb dums.
Speaker 2: Exactly, children are dumb dumbs.
Speaker 3: Number two government run food, housing, medicine, transportation, and nationalizing
Speaker 3: all other large corporations and essential industries.
Speaker 1: That's actually been tried and could be tried, And that
Speaker 1: one worries me. The No More Bills.
Speaker 3: Three, the drafting of a new constitution, meaning getting rid
Speaker 3: of the current one. Four, defunding the Department of War. Five,
Speaker 3: slavery reparations. Six, unlimited free abortion and gender affirming care
Speaker 3: for all, including minors children. Seven have taxpayers pay off
Speaker 3: everyone's entire student debt and fund a limited, free higher
Speaker 3: education for all.
Speaker 1: Eight Why I mean, I suppose there's no point in
Speaker 1: nitpicking any of these because they're all so ridiculous, but
Speaker 1: they don't even fit together themselves. Why am I going
Speaker 1: and getting a degree to get a job in a
Speaker 1: world where I get free housing, free healthcare, free food,
Speaker 1: free transportation.
Speaker 2: What do I need a job for? That's actually a
Speaker 2: pretty good point.
Speaker 3: Let's see taking steps toward fully abolishing the police and
Speaker 3: prison system, fully abolishing police in prison.
Speaker 4: I mean again, if you talk to a crowd that
Speaker 4: cheers that you're talking to children or ignoramuses, yes, no jails,
Speaker 4: no cops.
Speaker 2: Are you nuts?
Speaker 1: How do you type that out on a website and think, Hey,
Speaker 1: I really think that we're gonna get mocked for this?
Speaker 2: Now go ahead put it in there.
Speaker 3: Well, what you need to remember? And I'm enjoying the
Speaker 3: mockery very much. Is that human beings very much like us,
Speaker 3: were induced by Chairman Mao and his regime to drag
Speaker 3: their parents and teachers into the street and beat them
Speaker 3: to death for being counter revolutionaries. As idiotic as anything
Speaker 3: could possibly be, and yet they did it. Let's see
Speaker 3: nine and all deportations, providing amnesty for all illegal immigrants
Speaker 3: and allowing unlimited migration to America. Ten, Abolish the Presidency,
Speaker 3: the Supreme Court unlimited.
Speaker 2: I've got it back up.
Speaker 1: Again, Okay, And as I said, I'm not sure engaging
Speaker 1: these things in conversation, it's really worthwhile. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: no borders in a country that gives free everything, free housing,
Speaker 1: free food, free medical care, free transportation. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: open borders in a country that offers free everything. You
Speaker 1: realize the population of the United States is going to
Speaker 1: be seven point eight billion or whatever the current population
Speaker 1: of the world is as.
Speaker 3: Soon as they can get the flights and boats came on. Yep, yep,
Speaker 3: absolutely true, and finally abolish the Presidency, the Supreme Court,
Speaker 3: and the Senate. Other than that, this writer writes, their
Speaker 3: plan seems super realistic and not at all naive, revolutionary
Speaker 3: or dystopian.
Speaker 2: Well, right, as they claim.
Speaker 1: Those candidates get away with claiming that it's just no,
Speaker 1: you just kind of you know, my you know, the
Speaker 1: European version of Democratic Party, That's what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: kind of right, European socialism, white sort of thing. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not what the platform says.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are mainstream news commentators right now saying no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: they're not communists or like textbook socialists. They want just
Speaker 3: want more, more help for people, just the warm embrace
Speaker 3: of collectivism. I'm reminded of Sidney Hook, the great philosopher
Speaker 3: who starting out as a Marxist and later became a
Speaker 3: leading critic of communism, who says, I was guilty of
Speaker 3: judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes
Speaker 3: and aspirations, capitalism by its works, and socialism by its literature.
Speaker 3: To this day, this error and its disastrous consequences are
Speaker 3: observable in the judgment and behavior of some impressionable and
Speaker 3: impassioned individuals, mostly young. And he's right, it's a young
Speaker 3: person's philosophy, because if you have any life experience in
Speaker 3: any realism, you realize, as Jack did, hooting an hollering that.
Speaker 1: None of this stuff could conceivably work, certainly not together.
Speaker 1: I mean individually they can't work, but you put them
Speaker 1: together and it's really hilarious.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely true.
Speaker 3: We were talking about yesterday how I was saying I
Speaker 3: saw green shoots of real opposition to the DSA among
Speaker 3: mainstream Democrats. For example. Now this is a weak effort,
Speaker 3: but here's a prominent New York politician is seeing the
Speaker 3: DSA take the power in the party, and the activists
Speaker 3: aren't traditional black politicians like him. And so now this
Speaker 3: guy was his first name, Donovan Richards. He's the queen
Speaker 3: Borough President, He's a legend of New York politics. He
Speaker 3: is now saying he just posted white supremacy comes in
Speaker 3: all forms. So he's trying to claim the DSA are
Speaker 3: white supremacist.
Speaker 2: Well, if that works to stop them, I might join him.
Speaker 3: But another example, Abdul al sayed, the islamianist who's running
Speaker 3: for the Senate in Michigan has a chance of winning.
Speaker 3: He has been trying to distance himself from the DSA.
Speaker 3: He is a calculating Manchurian candidate, for sure.
Speaker 2: Google it.
Speaker 3: He's distancing himself from the DSA and insisting he's not
Speaker 3: technically or practically a member of the radical group, but
Speaker 3: he's been a markedly enthusiastic supporter for years as he
Speaker 3: rose up through Michigan's progressive political scene, repeatedly appearing at
Speaker 3: their events, including headlining a twenty nineteen DSA fundraiser in
Speaker 3: which the group's Detroit chapter called to me, longtime friend,
Speaker 3: and he's raised thousands of dollars for them. He's photographed
Speaker 3: arm and arm regularly with a bevy of grinning socialists,
Speaker 3: including Rashida Talib, a DSA member who belongs to the Squad,
Speaker 3: of course, in front of a the Marxist style pamphlet
Speaker 3: depicting a red DSA fist choking a snake labeled capitalism.
Speaker 1: So apparently, so Bernie founded the DSA, that movement, Democratic
Speaker 1: Socialists of America. That's what he's called himself. But so
Speaker 1: this guy writ and then the Free Press today, who
Speaker 1: is a member of the DSA for a while, said
Speaker 1: it's gotten more radical over time, So it has changed.
Speaker 2: The actual founders are gone.
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, that's what's going on there is they were
Speaker 1: originally like European style socialism or Democratic Party or whatever,
Speaker 1: that's what they were, and they've been taken over by
Speaker 1: the actual communists now. And this guy that left the
Speaker 1: DSA who's trying to he's a lefty, but he's trying
Speaker 1: to warn people about this.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 1: The website prompts readers to imagine a world where the
Speaker 1: profit motive has been squelched out of existence.
Speaker 2: And this is a quote.
Speaker 1: You have no debt, you don't need health insurance, you
Speaker 1: don't pay a mortgage or have a landlord because comfortable
Speaker 1: housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded
Speaker 1: by who. It goes on to promise open borders, as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, the abolition of the police, free everything, and
Speaker 1: guaranteed jobs, all with less effort from the individual as
Speaker 1: this person who was in the DSA. Right, this is
Speaker 1: the stuff of fairy tales, but instead of a fairy godmother,
Speaker 1: the reader is greeted by an agent of the secret police.
Speaker 2: Yeah no gidding, Yeah, well said, well said.
Speaker 3: It's utter fantasy land only a child or a childlike
Speaker 3: person would fall for. It's really quite astounding. But we've
Speaker 3: been asking when is the Democratic Party going to realize
Speaker 3: we've played a bunch of clips. I think it was
Speaker 3: last week of a DSA gathering or speaker after speaker
Speaker 3: after speaker is saying, look, we use the Democratic Party
Speaker 3: to get on the ballot, we use their line, we
Speaker 3: get elected, and then we're going to crush the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2: They are not our friends. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That was David French what he wrote while you were
Speaker 1: on vacation that I thought was really good. Hey, Democrats,
Speaker 1: the DSA hates you more than they hate Republicans. You
Speaker 1: need to wake up to.
Speaker 3: That, right and they are. They absolutely are, I believe.
Speaker 3: Let's start with thirty four. Michael Brett Bear towards the
Speaker 3: end of Special Report last night, on his panel segment,
Speaker 3: he had the usual assembly and it's weird. You almost
Speaker 3: never see this on left Republicans, Democrats, moderates, all discussing
Speaker 3: the news of the day, start with thirty four.
Speaker 5: We're not just the only ones covering this bloom of
Speaker 5: democratic socialists and socialists around the country. It is a
Speaker 5: real thing that people are talking about.
Speaker 2: And the exhibit number one was Van Jones.
Speaker 1: Ideas that are literally insane, nutty, more rounding, dangerous, bigoted,
Speaker 1: are not progressive, they're.
Speaker 2: Reaggressive and they should not be in our party. Then
Speaker 2: he featured Bill Maher. The talking point is it's not
Speaker 2: communism and socialists. Okay, I've read the quotes. Don't tell
Speaker 2: me I'm not seeing what I am seeing. Could you
Speaker 2: see yourself voting for JD. Vance?
Speaker 1: Yes, And then he went to I hadn't heard that, yeah,
Speaker 1: Or Bill Maher would vote for JD.
Speaker 2: Vance over at AOC or who are the hell would
Speaker 2: be the communist or a Democratic socialists? Yeah? Exactly.
Speaker 3: Then he had on John McCarthy, who's say, a democratic
Speaker 3: one of your activist, functionary campaign manager type folks.
Speaker 6: Thirty eight, Michael, The opinions that are being taken up
Speaker 6: by these Democratic socialists are political non starters in any
Speaker 6: of the places that we actually need to put together
Speaker 6: a democratic majority. And look like Republicans aren't popular at
Speaker 6: this moment. Their one big, beautiful bill has not been
Speaker 6: defined for the American people. Their numbers are down. This
Speaker 6: should be a layup for Democrats. Their only strategy is
Speaker 6: to sit and call the Democrats socialists. But the reality
Speaker 6: is is that brand is actually sticking with Democrats. People
Speaker 6: buy it, and the reason they buy it is because
Speaker 6: it feels true. You know, we've seen in the last
Speaker 6: election cycles that people sit and they look at the
Speaker 6: Democratic Party and they say it's weak. And you know what,
Speaker 6: Democrats need to grow a backbone, you know, get a
Speaker 6: little bit of courage and sit and say no, we
Speaker 6: are disavowing this.
Speaker 2: Maybe voters might reward that.
Speaker 6: But if we stick with these guys, it's going to
Speaker 6: be a political disaster for the party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that's what works to our advantage because I'm
Speaker 1: similar to Bill Maher, I mean him saying he'd vote
Speaker 1: for ja jd Vance over Democrats running a socialist, I'll
Speaker 1: vote for I don't know, pixels, I'll vote for Rama
Speaker 1: Manuel or pick another Democrat over one of the socialists.
Speaker 1: I don't it's that important that the socialists, the communists
Speaker 1: don't end up in power.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It's the most evil ideology of the last one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty years. And so maybe the good news is
Speaker 1: George Stephanopolis got Bill Clinton elected as a Democrat. There's
Speaker 1: no way he thinks socialism is a good idea. And
Speaker 1: I would assume that soon he's going to have one
Speaker 1: of these candidates on and just tear them limb from limb.
Speaker 3: Yeah, these the Democrats are coming out of the closet
Speaker 3: as haters of the DSA and of these communists, the Marxists,
Speaker 3: which is good, yeah, it because we need their help
Speaker 3: and we're so comfortable as a society in the two
Speaker 3: parts party system is held so long and.
Speaker 2: Been fairly moderate. I mean, lord knows we have problems.
Speaker 3: But I think Americans tend to think radical political movements
Speaker 3: can't work here. And if you think that, you're wrong
Speaker 3: what I always thought, Yeah, yeah, well you were wrong,
Speaker 3: and I know you don't think that anymore. They absolutely
Speaker 3: can work because all it takes. And there was a
Speaker 3: great piece by written by one of your radical leftists
Speaker 3: I can't remember who's, talking about how they can win
Speaker 3: with seven percent of the electorate and it might even
Speaker 3: have been six and I read part of it and thought,
Speaker 3: you know what, he's right. It's like, you know, fifteen
Speaker 3: percent of the population can lead a violent revolution if
Speaker 3: they have a certain number of sympathizers and the third
Speaker 3: number of people who are just apathetic. So yeah, I would,
Speaker 3: I would. I would take this stuff seriously. And part
Speaker 3: of it is a numbers game. I'm looking again at
Speaker 3: Nate Silver's unbelievably insightful analysis of issues and who cares
Speaker 3: about them and the imbalance between the bulk of the
Speaker 3: Democratic Party and the young leftist activists is unbelievable. Among
Speaker 3: like everybody but young way left college educated activists, the
Speaker 3: whole Israel Palestine thing came in twenty fifth out of
Speaker 3: thirty issues. It was randomized several dozen head to head issues,
Speaker 3: which do you think is more important? And again, Israel
Speaker 3: Palestine was twenty fifth out of thirty except among the
Speaker 3: super energized lefties, and that it won. Instead of winning
Speaker 3: d D twenty eight percent of the time in the
Speaker 3: head head matchups, it won forty five percent of the time.
Speaker 3: And among those super lefty people.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: For instance, percentage of voters describing the issue is more
Speaker 3: important acceptance of gay people among all voters twenty two percent.
Speaker 3: Among extremely liberal voters it's sixty percent. I think most
Speaker 3: people will say, what do you mean, acceptance and gay people.
Speaker 3: Gay people are accepted, but it's a huge issue and
Speaker 3: a burning issue on the radical left. Acceptance of transgender people.
Speaker 3: Is that an important issue? Eighteen percent of voters say yes.
Speaker 3: Forty nine percent of extremely liberal voters say that's a
Speaker 3: very important issue. It's a extremely energized, very small, very young,
Speaker 3: college educated, very white subset of humanity, but they've been
Speaker 3: driving the bus.
Speaker 2: Take the wheelback, Democrats.
Speaker 1: We got an example of just how thoughtful they are.
Speaker 1: Coming up in a second. If you haven't heard this,
Speaker 1: dumb kid explain what socialism is and I got I
Speaker 1: got an example of creeping ideologies. It's depressing. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm going to do that or not. Maybe
Speaker 1: you've had enough of that, think about it.
Speaker 2: Oh, stay here, Armstrong and getty pah.
Speaker 1: We were talking earlier about how therapy doing more harm
Speaker 1: than good for some people are really bad advice from therapists.
Speaker 1: We got some great texts just going through, so we
Speaker 1: might have to revisit that issue coming up in a
Speaker 1: little bit. But first we wanted to play this. I've
Speaker 1: heard it three times already. I enjoyed every time here's
Speaker 1: a college kid on the street being asked to, you know,
Speaker 1: to find socialism. This is how much they've thought about this.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 7: I saw statistic amazing for you guys, more than half
Speaker 7: of young Americans now prefer socialism over capitalism. So if
Speaker 7: you can look into the camera and give a thirty
Speaker 7: second elevator pitch on why socialism is better than capitalism?
Speaker 8: Community, are you tired of sitting alone and being by
Speaker 8: yourself and having no one to talk to. Vassilis, it's
Speaker 8: all about me. It's about Lara sitting down and having
Speaker 8: coffee with random strangery and talking to them, talking about
Speaker 8: the game. Hell, I have hugged more strangers in this
Speaker 8: past summer because of the next game, because of the
Speaker 8: World Cup. Because socialism works is a watch parties at
Speaker 8: a round hosts. It's about the parties that we allow.
Speaker 8: You don't have cops pogging every single site and saying, oh,
Speaker 8: you can't be here because there's too many people, instead
Speaker 8: of allowing people just being in their nature, a natural
Speaker 8: element of talking each other. Dude, bond over things we
Speaker 8: love and share. So that was socialis ain't scary word.
Speaker 2: He ain't me.
Speaker 8: Taking your house is about me making sure your house
Speaker 8: remains in your hands and some million doesn't take it
Speaker 8: from you.
Speaker 2: That's it. That a bigger house than me than I
Speaker 2: am going to take it.
Speaker 1: That part of Dan is really really interesting because, like
Speaker 1: somebody texted earlier, the kid is mistaking socializing for socialism.
Speaker 1: But then he throws in at the end he does
Speaker 1: have some concept of the idea of taking your home
Speaker 1: or everybody getting to have a millionaire is not taking
Speaker 1: out with something, so.
Speaker 2: That depth of knowledge should not in the day the
Speaker 2: activists are thinking, geez, these people are easier than I
Speaker 2: thought they'd be.
Speaker 3: Hey, getting back to my point about how the normal
Speaker 3: Democrats have to take their party back. One radical of
Speaker 3: one in New York in a congressional race. He got
Speaker 3: eleven percent of the population's votes and that was enough
Speaker 3: to win the primary eleven percent.
Speaker 1: How AOC got into Congress basically the same numbers, right,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty?
Speaker 2: Should I thousands watch them on that nest cam? The
Speaker 2: beloved bald Eagles, Jackie and Shadow? What's just happened to Jackie?
Speaker 2: David Muir last night on the news? He's got one speed.
Speaker 1: So whether he's talking about three dead soldiers returning to
Speaker 1: the United States from the war in Iran and he
Speaker 1: goes into this same voice, Should I thousands watch them
Speaker 1: on that nest cam? The beloved bald Eagles, Jackie and Shadow?
Speaker 1: What's just happened to Jackie? What's just happened to Jackie?
Speaker 8: Dude?
Speaker 2: Jackie? Are you here? Where's Jackie? Bad news?
Speaker 3: Mister President? So I got this funny I got this.
Speaker 3: Eagles don't have names. They don't have human names. They
Speaker 3: don't know their own names. I got this story wrong.
Speaker 2: I saw somebody.
Speaker 1: I thought somebody bought it in an auction, Like some
Speaker 1: other stuff we were talking about earlier. They auctioned off
Speaker 1: the rug from the big lebowski that really ties the
Speaker 1: room together.
Speaker 2: This was found at a good will. A guy paid
Speaker 2: three dollars for it.
Speaker 1: Wilt Chamberlain's warm up jacket when he played for the
Speaker 1: Lakers in the nineteen seventy two finals.
Speaker 3: Oh my lord, I know I've been in thrift stores
Speaker 3: many times. I haven't found anything. I have you an
Speaker 3: ice bargain shirt? I can think, Oh, that'd be cool
Speaker 3: to have. Be way too big for me. I'd look
Speaker 3: like a little kid walking around in it. Would What
Speaker 3: was the like headline or whatever the therapy stuff you
Speaker 3: were doing earlier? Oh here it is stand by. Are
Speaker 3: therapists to blame, yes for the rise of adults cutting
Speaker 3: off their parents. Everything becomes trauma.
Speaker 1: And has to be dealt with in just like such
Speaker 1: an extreme way. The therapists ever say, yeah, lots of
Speaker 1: people don't get along. Sometimes you work it out. Anything
Speaker 1: else I can do for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your parents were probably youngish and probably would have
Speaker 3: done stuff a little differently.
Speaker 2: With you, but now you had it pretty good.
Speaker 1: Or get over it, or sounds about like everybody else
Speaker 1: that comes in here. I remember one time reading I
Speaker 1: thought this was so good. It was somebody who was
Speaker 1: a therapist and they had to leave the business when
Speaker 1: they realized it was just middle aged people whose lives
Speaker 1: hadn't turned out the way they thought they would.
Speaker 2: That is all they talked to all day long. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I was talking about how I personally know of
Speaker 1: some crazy therapist, So what does that mean if I
Speaker 1: know a handful and I don't know that many therapists.
Speaker 1: I know some normal therapists too, but sure, and you know,
Speaker 1: I would guess that most therapists are normal and helpful,
Speaker 1: but that the problem.
Speaker 3: Is a lot like if you knew like half a
Speaker 3: dozen dentists and two of them stole people's teeth while
Speaker 3: they were out and like sold them for profit and
Speaker 3: left you toothless, that would be that I would approach
Speaker 3: dentistry in a different way.
Speaker 1: Knowing that I talked about therapists stories I know personally
Speaker 1: of marriage counselors who ended up sleeping with the husband
Speaker 1: or the wife of the people they were supposed to
Speaker 1: be giving therapy to.
Speaker 2: How awful is that? Really? There ought to be a
Speaker 2: jail term for that. God, there should be.
Speaker 1: I know somebody who had that happen to him has
Speaker 1: been fighting the state of California to try to get
Speaker 1: this person disbarred.
Speaker 2: That it's uphill climb.
Speaker 1: Oh, we went to save our marriage and you slept
Speaker 1: with my husband. Good freaking God. Anyway, we got this text, Jack,
Speaker 1: You're right, I know a therapist who one slept and
Speaker 1: remarried one friend's husband, and two slept with and bought
Speaker 1: the house of another friend. What uh got this text?
Speaker 1: As a cop and personally, the observed mental health crisis
Speaker 1: is now based on your mental problems being defining qualities
Speaker 1: of your personality.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 1: You didn't say I am cancer. You said I have cancer. However,
Speaker 1: the new trend is to identify with your mental problems
Speaker 1: as who you are as opposed to an obstacle or
Speaker 1: medical challenge to address, treat, and hopefully manage. Now the
Speaker 1: expectation is everyone must adjust to your mental situation. Yes,
Speaker 1: and if you don't, it's similar to racism. You're intentionally
Speaker 1: being mean or intolerant. I have experienced this. You're intentionally
Speaker 1: being mean or intolerant because you have a racist like
Speaker 1: response to someone with mental problems. Even though you may
Speaker 1: have zero knowledge that they had an issue. You're just
Speaker 1: supposed to assume they do and adjust your life around
Speaker 1: their problems.
Speaker 3: Right, there's definitely a lot of the narcissism of small distinctions.
Speaker 3: You should listen to me and pay attention to me
Speaker 3: and sympathize with me because.
Speaker 2: I have this or that.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, in a way that look maybe back in
Speaker 3: the day post WW two, we're a little closed off
Speaker 3: about our mental challenges, and then maybe we should have,
Speaker 3: you know, shared a little more. Okay, But there's a
Speaker 3: sweet spot, and like everything in the modern world, really
Speaker 3: everything in humankind seems to go from one extreme to another.
Speaker 2: You pass the sweet spot in the middle.
Speaker 3: You have no idea you're there, so you keep going,
Speaker 3: and before you know it, everybody's diagnosing themselves with a
Speaker 3: malady and asking for special consideration. When your malady is
Speaker 3: you're a human being. We get depressed, we get anxious,
Speaker 3: we lack confidence, we have imposter syndrome. Sometimes we drink
Speaker 3: too much and feel bad about it whatever you're a human.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I My guess would be we hit peak therapy
Speaker 1: being good for society years ago, I don't know how
Speaker 1: long ago, and it's and then we're swinging back.
Speaker 3: I would guess you know my favorite therapy joke you
Speaker 3: mentioned him earlier, Woody Allen. After twelve years of therapy
Speaker 3: pouring out my heart, my therapist said something that brought
Speaker 3: tears to my eyes. He said, no, hopling, lazy. You
Speaker 3: see you see what do you hal? Those years? I
Speaker 3: guess you do get it.
Speaker 2: Which movie does Woody Allen open with the therapy joke?
Speaker 2: Is at Annie Hall.
Speaker 1: It's one of his big movies where he opens with
Speaker 1: the joke my uncle thought he was a chicken. Why
Speaker 1: didn't she get him to a therapist? We could use
Speaker 1: the eggs? Just too good Alzheimer. This is not funny.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, this one will bother you. I lost both
Speaker 1: my daughters to transgender therapists when they turned twenty two.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, my oldest is now thirty. They cut
Speaker 1: off all ties to the family. I do know they
Speaker 1: are living together, so them having each other gives me
Speaker 1: some comfort. But as my own parents' age get dimension cancer,
Speaker 1: they have no closure with their grandkids, and all I
Speaker 1: can think is that my kids will eventually realize what
Speaker 1: they did and need more therapy to get over the
Speaker 1: pain that was caused by the therapists.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, yeah, I've it's heartbreaking. These kids get
Speaker 3: swept up in the transgender activist thing. They've got problems,
Speaker 3: they get sold on not only not the right solution,
Speaker 3: but a twisted, sick version of a solution. Then when
Speaker 3: they finally, finally, finally, painfully come to terms with the
Speaker 3: fact that they were defrauded.
Speaker 1: And they're even more screwed up, you know, just on
Speaker 1: the therapy in general. And this is probably causes pain
Speaker 1: for some people. I'm not trying to cause pain, but
Speaker 1: so maybe you did have a bad mom or dad,
Speaker 1: or brother or boss or whatever it is, except in
Speaker 1: extreme cases, the idea that you make the rest of
Speaker 1: your life you define around that I can't do this
Speaker 1: or that, or I have these are those problems in
Speaker 1: relationships or jobs or whatever because of whoever you're using
Speaker 1: as your reason for all your problems for the rest
Speaker 1: of your life, as opposed to, yeah, that's horrible that
Speaker 1: happened to you. Let's figure out a way to you know,
Speaker 1: not let that affect your life going forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that ought to be the first words of all counseling.
Speaker 3: All right, our job is to overcome that, yeah, wallowing it,
Speaker 3: overcome it, right, And maybe you had level one of
Speaker 3: stuff to overcome. Maybe you're a three, maybe you're a five,
Speaker 3: God bless you. But our job here is to overcome.
Speaker 1: That as opposed to let it define you for the
Speaker 1: rest of your life. Right, profit in that it reminds
Speaker 1: me a lonesome dove. When Augustus McCrae Robert duvall was
Speaker 1: talking to Lori Darling, Darling who had just been gang
Speaker 1: raped by a bunch of bandidos, and she's crying and
Speaker 1: he's hugging her, and she's saying that shouldn't have happened.
Speaker 1: They shouldn't have done that, And he said it shouldn't
Speaker 1: have happened, but it did. And we've got to figure
Speaker 1: out how to move on with our lives. And I
Speaker 1: always thought that's just so much better advice than you know,
Speaker 1: making that the focus of your existence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's not cold to say that, No, that's
Speaker 3: it's caring to say, yes, don't let your life be ruined.
Speaker 2: Easy for me to say.
Speaker 1: I realize, Yeah, yeah, well I thought that was an
Speaker 1: interesting moment in that in that book Politic prize winning book,
Speaker 1: and then the TV show.
Speaker 2: It shouldn't happen, but it did.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about this. I was taking a walk
Speaker 3: the other day. Oddly enough, I was thinking about the
Speaker 3: hashtag me two movement.
Speaker 2: And H and.
Speaker 3: And I just for the record, I have a whore
Speaker 3: ungentleman behavior by dudes it disgusts me. Sorry, hard guys
Speaker 3: and tate brothers fans. I believe in treating women with
Speaker 3: kindness and respect. But the aspect, the aspect of the
Speaker 3: me too movement that became leftist politics, because remember that's
Speaker 3: one of the grievance groups that the greater Neo Marxist
Speaker 3: movement tried to try to you know, rope into their
Speaker 3: their you know, their forces, was women who have been
Speaker 3: victimized by men, resent men, et cetera. Overthrowing the patriarchy
Speaker 3: is all about males. It's an underrecognized aspect of this movement.
Speaker 3: So I so many angry, crazy young women are into
Speaker 3: this the whole male female thing. You can't get that
Speaker 3: activism if you convince women that, yeah, some drunken idiot
Speaker 3: grabbed your button a bar, but you're fine. You're fine.
Speaker 3: He's an a hole and a jerk. Watch out for
Speaker 3: drunken dudes because they act like idiots.
Speaker 2: You can't say that.
Speaker 3: You've got to say, oh my god, that was a
Speaker 3: sexual assault. You have been victimized, you are oh my god,
Speaker 3: are you okay? You can't get people to become activists
Speaker 3: unless you's what's the correct term if you impostrophize a
Speaker 3: catastrophized thank you. I was gonna say traumatized and know
Speaker 3: there's wrong. You've got to catastrophize people's unpleasant experiences to
Speaker 3: radicalize them. And I would never minimize a serious, you know,
Speaker 3: sexual victimization or physical assault or whatever, of course, but
Speaker 3: catastrophization maybe the worst thing that we've taught our youngsters. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and other people have taught them. Yeah, dang it, that's
Speaker 3: something to watch out for.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I think about my own loved ones, who I don't
Speaker 1: want to have them focus the rest of their lives
Speaker 1: on various bad things that have occurred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they have, Yeah to a lot of people.
Speaker 3: I hope that tide had come all the way in
Speaker 3: and now it's going out again.
Speaker 1: I'll ponder all that while I'm at Goodwill this afternoon,
Speaker 1: going through the bin trying to find rick Berry's knee socks.
Speaker 1: We will finished strong.
Speaker 2: Next time Strong knocked again.
Speaker 9: The man inside said he was not going to get out.
Speaker 9: They looked inside and didn't see anybody, but the lid
Speaker 9: was closed. No one was in the restroom. It kind
Speaker 9: of startled that. All of a sudden, a head popped
Speaker 9: out of the toilet and he said, I'm in here.
Speaker 9: He told them he was retrieving a mountain dew bottle
Speaker 9: that he dropped in from the night before. After it
Speaker 9: was cut open, the man was able to actu The toilet.
Speaker 9: Fire department did hook up water to their truck and
Speaker 9: gave him a free shower.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they had to hose him off. What
Speaker 2: happened there? Michael?
Speaker 1: Guy fell into a porta potty. He was chasing all
Speaker 1: into a porta party. How often does this happen nationwide?
Speaker 1: I feel like you bring us one of these once
Speaker 1: a week.
Speaker 3: Some days I think you're pushing people into porta potties.
Speaker 2: Just for the enentroyment.
Speaker 3: This guy was had a mountain dew and he dropped
Speaker 3: it into the toilet. In this porta potty that cost
Speaker 3: a dollar eighty seven, and so he went down after it.
Speaker 3: And here's the good part. So he goes to get it,
Speaker 3: he falls into the porta potty and the local fire
Speaker 3: fighters and that was their oddly speaking spokesperson.
Speaker 2: Then we shout up to the porta party and that's
Speaker 2: a good question. How did they get something?
Speaker 1: Did how many here muffled yells coming from a porta potty?
Speaker 1: Did he have his cell phone with him?
Speaker 2: All right, it does not make that clear.
Speaker 3: Local firefighters were called, can come and rescue the man?
Speaker 2: And this is great.
Speaker 3: So they showed up and they're looking in the porta
Speaker 3: potty and they don't see anybody, and and uh, let's see.
Speaker 3: One firefighter shouted, that would be so gross and weirdly
Speaker 3: enough that blue water is probably worse for you than
Speaker 3: stuff coming out of humans because of Taco bell let us.
Speaker 3: But yeah, and I don't understand quite all of this.
Speaker 3: But the firefighter shouted, uh, I can't hear you put
Speaker 3: your head through the thing like you were before we
Speaker 3: showed up.
Speaker 2: And the stuck man responded, I can't.
Speaker 3: Dumb f okay the firefighter In a minute, the firefighter responded,
Speaker 3: I'm the dumb F you're stuck in a urinal.
Speaker 1: I think I would have just said, well, I'm through
Speaker 1: here and closed the door.
Speaker 2: You know you're right, I'm a dumb cluck.
Speaker 3: See uh, I can't dumb. If that's the kind of
Speaker 3: guy who chases a mountain dew into a porta pot
Speaker 3: and ends up drowning.
Speaker 2: Those two things probably do go together.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I mean dumb if it's not a good
Speaker 1: idea when people try to get their cell phone or
Speaker 1: something of value but a mountain dew.
Speaker 3: The company that owns the turlet confirmed that he was
Speaker 3: trying to get a mountain do and he'd been stuck
Speaker 3: there for eight hours.
Speaker 2: Eight hours, that's a new detail.
Speaker 3: Well now, when the firefighters showed up and instructed him,
Speaker 3: maybe he was in a bit of a mood.
Speaker 2: Haven't we all said things we regretted.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I shouldn't have called you that, but I've been
Speaker 1: neck deep in poopee and whatever this blue chemical is.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for an entire work day.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Is your name Jim? Jim? I'm sorry I
Speaker 2: called you a DUMBF.
Speaker 3: I've been in human excrement since eight o'clock this smart
Speaker 3: if you can imagine that.
Speaker 2: So my patience is thin. Yes, I just I snapped
Speaker 2: at you. I shouldn't have.
Speaker 3: It's not about you. I'm sorry. I hope you can accept.
Speaker 3: Oh you don't want to shake my hand. I get it,
Speaker 3: But if I weren't covered with excrement, I'd like to
Speaker 3: shake your hand and ask your forgiveness.
Speaker 2: See that's the way he should have approached it. Ah.
Speaker 1: Oh, and then they hosed him off with the fire hose.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, eight hours that.
Speaker 2: What's that juice in there that neutralizes all saying?
Speaker 1: I think the blue juice would be more harmful to
Speaker 1: you than whatever the pooh is.
Speaker 2: What's in that?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: I don't think the poo would do you any good.
Speaker 1: No, I do think Michael's pushing people into porta potties.
Speaker 1: So we'll have one of these stories every week. Here's
Speaker 1: your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. And he's like
Speaker 1: the firefighter that sets fires. Yeah, same thing.
Speaker 3: Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
Speaker 3: crew to wrap up the day. There he is, I
Speaker 3: just accused him. Our technical director, Mike Langlom, I go,
Speaker 3: what's final thought?
Speaker 1: I was just singing Rodney dangerfield, and he talked about
Speaker 1: going to this therapist and the therapist would say, you're
Speaker 1: really obnoxious.
Speaker 2: He goes, I want a second opinion. He goes, Okay,
Speaker 2: you're ugly too. There you go. Yeah, yeah, that's not
Speaker 2: a good therapist either. Jack. Do you have a final
Speaker 2: thought for us?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 1: I agree with Charles cw. A Cook of the National Review.
Speaker 1: Can I just say I'm going to a movie without
Speaker 1: having to defend myself against you? Okay, then you don't
Speaker 1: go I'm gonna go see the Odyssey. I'm not in
Speaker 1: it to defend my position of wanting to go see
Speaker 1: a movie that's supposed to be good. Leave me alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good point.
Speaker 3: I'd like you your argument that this is got to
Speaker 3: be good for people re introducing themselves to Western civilization,
Speaker 3: how important it is to study it. Do not apologize
Speaker 3: for Western civilization. It's elevated billions of people to lives
Speaker 3: they couldn't have dreamed of a couple hundred years ago.
Speaker 3: Up with the USA, up with Western civilization, Judeo Christian principles,
Speaker 3: et cetera.
Speaker 2: I like it.
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Speaker 2: Get that too. We'll see tomorrow. God bless America. My
Speaker 2: point was made. Also, screw it, I'm leaving.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 2: I thought everything was over. Okay, cheer boom Gay came over.
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